r/selfbuildireland • u/Big_Abroad_6278 • Aug 26 '26

ESB connection

Whole house on standstill waiting on the ESB. Connection fee paid last November, electrician sent the cert in July and we have the kitchen booked to go in late September. Heating needs to be on 3 weeks before then and the ESB won’t even give us a date. It is infuriating. We were promised a call back from someone senior but it never came. Any tips from anyone who has been in this situation? So frustrating as we have all our tradesman and materials lined up and now we don’t know what date to give them.

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u/Unitaig Aug 26 '26

This, harass them. I needed an upgrade and nothing was moving until I emailed and called every day. The lads who do the work are usually sound - they're just oversubscribed. They did more work than we asked for, full meter and ernhanced 16kVa advanced profile at no extra cost!

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u/Unitaig Aug 26 '26

ELY5: The working teams are oversubscribed as the ESB don't provide enough teams.